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Well, I can't argue they're a space saver, since the desktop sits behind the monitor anyway. I also can't say they save money, since the Opitplex tower by itself plus a monitor from a third party would be at the very least $100 cheaper. But from an appearance point of view, they are a little less cluttered look with the wireless keyboard and the like. You could almost upgrade to the 990 with a third party monitor for the same cost as the all-in-one.

Monitors are on sale like crazy right now, it'd be a good time to take advantage of them! Bought a few for myself.

We actually got 2 Vostro 360 All in One Demo's and used one for IT and gave one to an accounting user and kept them for 30 days. I've read the negative reviews about the Vostro Line but for us, we had zero issues with the units and the users who got to work on it loved it. Very Clean packaging and and very responsive with everything we threw at it. Granted it was only 30 days but the way I see it is we still get the same warranty and support level as we do with our Optiplex line and the systems come out a few hundred cheaper than the optiplex systems we normally configure. We can save cost, and space. So we are thinking of going this route on our next change out. We have a solid backup system in place so if we experience a higher than normal drive failure rate or component failure rate then it will be lesson learned. But with NBD support it's worth a try for us. Just my .02.

When I looked at them last summer, the components were Core Duo and Core 2 and no options were available for the iSeries, so I went with HP 9600s. Also got 64-bit computing and larger monitors than Dell offered at the time.

There isn't much in the way of custimizing. But our demo units had i5 processor, 500 GB HD, 4 Gig ram. WIndows 7 64bit only. Wifi, bluetooth, webcam, etc. The ram limitation makes them a little iffy for most of the IT dept but for Gen Pop they should fit the bill.

You may run into problems if you are using any kind of imaging. I spoke with my dell rep and they indicated that the dell all-in-ones are designed for home use and the internal components may not be the same from machine to machine even during one production run so this could make imaging difficult as from one machine to the next they could have different chip sets, video cards, etc.

I went with Systemax All-in-ones from Global Computing. I really needed the all-in-one chassis because where these PCs are going they are mounted on articulating arms and I really don't have a place for a tower(or mini tower) in these locations.